On the day his father was imprisoned, Su Zhao did not cry.
She was not afraid when the madam of Jiaofangsi forced her to sign a contract of sale. Everyone thought she had resigned herself to her fate, thinking that she would soon become another crumbling duckweed in Chang'an City like other daughters of guilty officials.
But the madam didn't notice that she signed with her left hand, and there was a secret letter hidden in her right hand, a letter that could overturn the case, kill her, drag her out of the abyss, and slam her to the ground.
Five months later, when everyone thought that Su Zhao had disappeared, she reappeared in the courtroom where the three judges were involved. There was no crying veil in his hand, only rolls of ironclad evidence and a sentence that silenced the powerful people in the room: "My lords, I will turn over my father's case."
